1) and 2) will probably not happen for core project due to desire to build
on odd platforms.
3) was proposed, I don't think anyone objected.
4) Dependency on libdispatch? *grumble*
No comments on the remainder. Even these items seem not completely
necessary or compelling, and counter to the desire to run on many platforms.
Regarding distant goals:
14) Does this mean you intend to support XC's spec file format and plugin
system?
15) Opal, being a 2d painting engine, has no relation to the compositing
system (Wayland) nor a 3d rendering/compositing system (EGL). Please don't
do this without expanding this.
17) I approve of this: not as a 'clone', but as a 'user-friendly,
comparable, compatible alternative'. I started work on Zcode a while ago,
but since I want to have a nice build system based on
XC3-{like,compatible} plugins and spec-files, it got stuck. In fact, it
makes sense to work on the build system first, for which the
Xcode3-and-before-era Xcode is just a frontend with an integrated editor.
How interesting will your implementation of build graph nodes classes be?
I also noticed you mention Opal in relation to CF a few times. Why?
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:04 PM 陈北宗 <xcvi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear List:
>
> I just forked libobjc2, base and corebase so I can restart the refactor
> project again, now using OS X 10.11 as the refactoring standard. I would
> like to know how should I contribute back?
>
> Project plan:
>
> 1) Building with clang 3.6+ mandatory, even for C-only projects. This is
> to allow...
> 2) … gnustep-make as well as use of autotools or cmake deprecated,
> replaced with __have_include() macro provided by clang. Also
> parallelisation that used to plague gnustep-make should work better now.
> For other projects, Xcode project files would be used instead.
> 3) GC in libobjc2 removed and ARC mandated, just like OS X 10.11 and iOS 5.
> 4) The base build order will be libobjc2 - libdispatch -
> gnustep-base-headers - gnustep-corebase - gnustep-base. The tangled look is
> from the fact that a few Base classes are moved to CoreBase for the sake of
> TFB.
> 5) libobjc2 will install blocks-related headers at correct locations as if
> installed from libBlocksRuntime, as well as creating a symlink for
> libBlocksRuntime, essentially replacing it entirely.
> 6) libobjc-opts removed - LLVM 3.4 and beyond not supported anyway, and
> LLVM 3.6+ mandated here.
> 7) NSZone, CFAllocator and part of NSObject moved to libobjc2 (allow TFB
> to be implemented in CoreBase)
> 8) Added TFB pairs for the sake of simplicity (should not break contract
> if used properly): NSZone vs CFAllocator, NSRunLoop vs CFRunLoop,
> NSCountedSet vs CFBag, NSIndexSet vs CFBitVector, and a few more.
> 9) I will figure out a way to put CFNetwork in, maybe as a separate
> library, and reimplement a few Base classes on top of that.
> 10) CommonCrypto API is used as an abstract layer above OpenSSL and
> GnuTLS, replacing the crypto bundle. It is built separately as
> libcommoncrypto-openssl and libcommoncrypto-gnutls dynamic libraries but
> only one can be linked at a time. Both libraries will be under a 3-clause
> BSD license, acting as a legal buffer between either OpenSSL license mix or
> LGPL from the crypto library, and LGPL or GPL of the framework proper.
> 11) dispatch-io will be used heavily across CF and Foundation -
> libdispatch now a hard dependency.
> 12) I will try to find some mach port analogue from within POSIX API. DO
> and XPC will depend on it.
> 13) A set of macros for creating new CF classes will be provided (for the
> sake of Opal)
>
> Distant goals:
>
> 14) DVTFoundation and xcodebuild cloned.
> 15) Opal, written on top of Wayland and EGL, replaces gnustep-back.
> 16) GUI would be taking advantage of ARC and Opal.
> 17) StepCode, a Xcode clone, based on libclang.
>
> Max.
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